So do you ever wonder why the border of Florida seems to stick into Alabama. Like
why doesn't the border look like this? Or this?
Why does Alabama just have this little foot reaching down onto the coast. Well
the answer is complicated *cough* we stole it.
So we asked people to vote on questions
they wanted answers to and this one won. So back in the pre American Revolution
days this was the set up of the Gulf Coast. By the way I'm not a cartographer
or even an OK artist so we're all going to have to agree to accept "close enough"
on these maps. For years Spain had its Florida colony and France had Louisiana.
The lines weren't clearly defined because a lot of this was unsettled
frontier land. So for the purposes of staying out of each other's hair leaders
of the French and Spanish colonies basically agreed on the Perdido River as
the official unofficial line of demarcation. But starting around 1763
,just before the American Revolution, Spain, France, and England started trading
this turf back and forth like they were kids with pokemon cards. England wins the
Seven Years War and they take all this land and France gives Spain this land.
Then England loses the American Revolution and gives all this back to Spain and
Spain gives this back France. Then the newly formed United States buys up a bunch
of French land, the Louisiana Purchase, and they claim all this. And that's where
our story starts. See, basically for nearly a decade after the Louisiana
Purchase the lines had the U.S. land stopping in Louisiana and Spain
controlling the rest of the Gulf Coast. But in 1812 the U.S. decided they
actually also bought this land up to the Perdido River because they bought all of
France's land and that used to be France's land... kind of... like three owners ago.
When the U.S. decided this was its land too Spain politely responded ,"the hell it is."
Then the U.S. sent troops to occupy this area and told Spain do something about
it. And they did not. Turns out that the American Revolution had caused a lot of
headaches for Spain. Firstly because when Spain's colonies in Mexico and South
America heard that running out your European rulers and becoming your own
country was a thing you could do, they proceeded to try over and over and over
again. Secondly because the money the U.S. gave to Napoleon for the Louisiana
Purchase was promptly put to good use wrecking up the place in Europe. Between
fighting Napoleon and putting down revolutions, by 1812 Spain neither had the
money nor the energy to start a war with the
US over this little land grab. So the U.S. just moved on to the coast and Spain
said ,"You know what... fine." This land eventually got consolidated into the new
states of Alabama and Mississippi. Eventually Spain just sold the rest of
their land in the area to the US because they didn't have the resources to
control it and that got turned into the state of Florida. That's the answer for
why Alabama has this little foot touching the coast. We basically just
wanted it so we took it. I'm Jonathan Sobolewski for Reckon.
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